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Terence Hill
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Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with his long-time film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity, Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors.
His most widely seen films include comic and standard spaghetti Westerns, some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the Wild West. Of these, the most famous are Lo chiamavano Trinità (They Call Me Trinity, 1970); ...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (Trinity Is Still My Name, 1971), the highest grossing Ita…
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Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with his long-time film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity, Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors. His most widely seen films include comic and standard spaghetti Westerns, some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the Wild West. Of these, the most famous are Lo chiamavano Trinità (They Call Me Trinity, 1970); ...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (Trinity Is Still My Name, 1971), the highest grossing Italian film at that time; and Il mio nome è Nessuno (My Name Is Nobody, 1973), co-starring Henry Fonda. Hill also went on to a successful television career in Italy, most notably playing the title character in the long-running Rai 1 series Don Matteo from 2000 until 2022. Hill was born on 29 March 1939 in Venice, Italy. Hill's mother, Hildegard Girotti (née Thieme), was from Dresden, Germany; his father, Girolamo Girotti, was Italian from Amelia, Umbria, and a chemist by occupation. During his childhood, Hill lived in the small town of Lommatzsch, Saxony. As a child, he experienced the bombing of Dresden, which was traumatic for him. He was there up to the End of World War II in Europe. He was discovered at the age of 12 by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi at a swimming meet, and he became a child actor, appearing in Risi's Vacation with a Gangster (1951) as Gianni, the orphan gang leader. "They were looking for a boy gang leader and they found me", he later said. He had small roles in Voice of Silence (1953) with Jean Marais, Too Young for Love (1953), and It Happened in the Park (1953). He was in Golden Vein (1954) with Märta Torén and Richard Basehart, The Abandoned (1955) and Folgore Division (1955). Girotti had his first lead in Guaglione (1956). He could also be seen in Mamma sconosciuta (1956), I vagabondi delle stelle (1956), La grande strada azzurra (1956) with Yves Montand and Alida Valli, and Lazzarella (1957). Girotti did Anna of Brooklyn (1958) with Gina Lollobrigida, The Sword and the Cross (1958) with Yvonne de Carlo (playing Lazarus of Bethany), and a TV version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1958). He had support parts in Il padrone delle ferriere (1959) with Virna Lisi, Juke box - Urli d'amore (1959), and Hannibal (1959) with Victor Mature and Carlo Pedersoli, who would later become known as Bud Spencer. Girotti had the lead roles in Spavaldi e innamorati (1959) and Cerasella (1959), a teen comedy. It was back to support roles with Carthage in Flames (1960), Un militare e mezzo (1960), and The Story of Joseph and His Brethren (1961) with Geoffrey Horne and Robert Morley, directed by Irving Rapper. Girotti had support parts in The Wonders of Aladdin (1961) with Donald O'Connor and directed by Henry Levin and Mario Bava, Pecado de amor (1961), Seven Seas to Calais (1962) with Rod Taylor, and The Shortest Day (1963). ... Source: Article "Terence Hill" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Terence Hill's Filmography
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The Socceritos
as Soccerito Terence
Terence Hill: Pazifist und Cowboy
as Self
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer… & me
as Self (Archive)
Lui era Trinità
as Self
On l'appelle Terence Hill
as Self
Caterina Caselli - Una vita, 100 vite
The Last Movie Painter
as Self
Le 1000 vite di Bud Spencer
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Die Terence Hill Story
as Self
Piedone nyomában
as Self
My Name Is Thomas
as Thomas
They Called Him Spencer
as Self
Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer
as Self
Doc West II : Triggerman
as Doc West
Doc West
as Doc West
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
as Self (archive footage)
L'uomo che sognava con le aquile
as Rocco Ventura
Nobody is Perfect
as Self / Self - Interviewee
Vier Fäuste lassen's krachen
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
as Nobody (archive footage)
Virtual Weapon
as Skims
Troublemakers
as Travis
Lucky Luke 2
as Lucky Luke (archive footage)
Lucky Luke
as Lucky Luke
They call me Lucky Luke - Ma Dalton
as Lucky Luke
Renegade
as Luke
Miami Supercops
as Doug Bennett / Jay Donell
Double Trouble
as Elliot Vance / Sebastiano Coímbra
Don Camillo
as Don Camillo
Go for It
as Rosco Frazer / Steinberg
Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
as Alan Lloyd
Super Fuzz
as Dave Speed
I'm for the Hippopotamus
as Slim
ORG
as Zohommm!!!
Odds and Evens
as Johnny Firpo
March or Die
as Marco Segrain
Crime Busters
as Matt Kirby
Mr. Billion
as Guido Falcone
Das Schwert der Nibelungen
as Giselher
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
as Joe Thanks
The Two Missionaries
as Padre J.
Watch Out, We're Mad
as Kid
My Name Is Nobody
as Nobody
All the Way Boys
as Plata
Man of the East
as Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore
The Hassled Hooker
as Marco Manin
Trinity Is Still My Name
as Trinità
Blackie the Pirate
as Blackie
They Call Me Trinity
as Trinità
Wrath of the Wind
as Marco
Boot Hill
as Cat Stevens
The Tough and the Mighty
as Graziano Cassitta
Ace High
as Cat Stevens
Django, Prepare a Coffin
as Django / Joe
Rita the Field Marshal
as Prof. Giuliano Fineschi
God Forgives... I Don't!
as Cat Stevens
The Crazy Westerners
as Black Star
Io non protesto, io amo
as Gabriele
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
as Giselher
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
as Giselher
Flaming Frontier
as Toby
Ruf der Wälder
as Marcello Scalzi
Duel at Sundown
as Larry McGow
Rampage at Apache Wells
as Richard Forsythe
Shots in 3/4 Time
as Enrico
Frontier Hellcat
as Baker Jr.
Last of the Renegades
as Lieutenant Robert Merril
The Leopard
as Count Cavriaghi
The Shortest Day
as Soldato austriaco
Seven Seas to Calais
as Babington
Pecado de amor
as Ángel Vega
The Wonders of Aladdin
as Prince Moluk
Joseph and His Brethren
as Benjamin
A Soldier and a Half
as Giorgio Strazzonelli
Carthage in Flames
as Tsour
Hannibal
as Quintilius
Cerasella
as Bruno
Juke Box - Screams of Love
as Othello
Spavaldi e innamorati
as Paolo
Il padrone delle ferriere
as Octave de Beaulieu
The Sword and the Cross
as Lazzaro
Fast and Sexy
as Ciccillo
Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde
as Dorian Gray
Lazzarella
as Luciano Pico
The Wide Blue Road
as Renato
Guaglione
as Franco Danieli
I vagabondi delle stelle
as Franco
Mamma sconosciuta
as Gianni Martini
The Golden Vein
as Corrado
Abandoned
as Wounded Estray
Divisione Folgore
as Delavigne
It Happened in the Park
as Anna Maria's Classmate (segment "Pi-greco") (uncredited)
The Age of Indiscretion
as (uncredited)
The Street of Hope
as as Girolamo Girotti (unconfirmed)
Voice of Silence
as Boy at Barrier
Vacation with a Gangster
as Giannini